A former learning mentor who sexually abused five vulnerable teenage girls who came to him for support at school has been jailed for eight years.
Predators go where the prey gathers and is vulnerable, and this school in particular seems to have been a whaterhole teeming with vulnerable and wounded prey.
And it seems the culture he was raised in was a large part of the issue:
At the same court on Thursday, as Udaw was surrounded by almost 20 family and friends, Judge Giles Curtis-Raleigh told him: "Your actions were predatory, directed against girls who had been referred or come directly to you because they were having problems in their lives and/or in the school where you were working as a learning mentor
"In each case it was a flagrant, gross breach of trust."
Came to support him by intimidating the witnesses:
After her statement, prosecutor Catherine Donnelly flagged that one of the defendant's family members was making a "rude gesture" towards the woman while she was speaking, and the judge ordered him to leave court and not come back.
Why wasn't he arrested and charged?
Catherine Purnell, defending, said her client's crimes were followed by a "very long period of not offending".
Fred West must have been busy laying the odd patio in between, Catherine. Is that the best you can do?
"During that time, he grew up properly in a way that young men have to when they create and nurture a nuclear family who are everything to him," she said, adding the proceedings have been "devastating" for his loved ones.
Consequences again.
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